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CHAPTER 22 GENESIS CREATION STORY AND RECENT COSMOLOGICAL FINDINGS—…
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terms in Genesis creation story. For example, no one doubts that according to the

Bible “light” was created on the first day, or that “the two great lights; the greater
light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night” (Gen.1:16) relates to
the creation, on the fourth day, of the sun and the moon, respectively. Other
events may be less clear-cut, yet they may still reasonably correlate with known
cosmological events, aided by how the best of Jewish interpreters had perceived
these events over thousands of years of Jewish scholarship.
In this chapter, we analyze dating of six cosmological events, as they are depicted
in biblical time-scale and in modern-cosmology time-scale. We then attempt to
establish, by means of rigorous statistical analysis, whether a statistically signifi -
cant relationship exists between the two time-scales. Two principles guide us in
conducting this study:

(1) We do not manipulate numbers; neither do we provide data unsubstan-
tiated by credible and well-recognized sources;
(2) We do not manipulate the techniques used in the statistical analysis; only
well known and widely accepted statistical techniques are employed.

With this general characterization of the study to be strictly adhered to, this
research is conducted in two parts. The first part, expounded in section 22.3,

describes how the data for this study were obtained. The second part, in section
22.4, analyzes the data, with the explicit intent of establishing whether a statisti-

cally significant relationship exists between the two time-scales.

22.3 The Data
22.3.1 Definition of Events

In this section we relate to six events, well recognized by modern science and
probably related to in Genesis story:

(1) Creation of light; section 22.3.2;

(2) Creation of first large-scale celestial structures (galaxies, nebulae); sec-
tion 22.3.3;
(3) Creation of the sun; section 22.3.4;
(4) Creation of the moon; section 22.3.4;
(5) Creation of multi-cellular and sexually reproducible life on Earth; sec-
tion 22.3.5;